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Philharmonic Hall by Barozzi/Veiga

A translucent glass concert hall with a jagged roofline in Szczecin, Poland.

The building emerges from its urban context, influenced by the steeply
pitched roofs and the verticality of the city’s residential buildings,
by the monumentality of the upright ornaments of its neo-Gothic churches
and the heavy volumes of its Classicist buildings, by the towers that
dot its entire skyline and the cranes of its port.

With an expressionist mindset, we have aimed to use geometry to give
shape to a new rhythmic composition that conveys feelings by balancing
massiveness and verticality. The use of glass as the exterior cladding material highlights how the
building contrasts with the conditions of its surrounding environment.
It creates a bright, transparent and upstanding object.

The building’s interiors are simple, large skylights being their utmost
defining trait. The great symphonic hall differs from these in that it
is a sculpted object, embedded into a barely outlined mineral-like
space.